Unit 7: Growth of the Nation, 1865-1916 Name: _____________________________
Topic 1: The Jim Crow Era: Block: _________________
Date:__________________
Discrimination & Segregation
In post-Reconstruction America, African-Americans faced racial discrimination in
both the north and the south.
In the south, however, segregation and discrimination affected all aspects of
society.
 Segregation through Jim Crow laws
 Limited freedoms for African-Americans
 Separation of races in public and private facilities
 Voting Restrictions
 _________________________ – Must be able to pass a test to vote
 _____________________– Must pay a tax to vote
 ___________________________– Exempt from literacy tests and poll
taxes if your family voted before the war
 What does the grandfather clause ensure? ______________________
 Physical Violence
 Ku Klux Klan
 Lynchings and Beatings (Lynching – hanging/murder by a mob)
Plessy vs Ferguson - 1896
 African-American activists try to protest unfair state segregation
laws

___________________________________: Supreme Court case
 Established the idea of “__________________________________________”
 The Supreme Court said this policy did not violate the 14th Amendment (which
had promised legal equality!)
 Allowed segregation and ____________________laws in the South, as long as
“equal” services were provided. (But were they really equal?)
In the north, discrimination was still common but segregation was not as pervasive.
 The “________________________________”
 Blacks moved to Northern cities for better paying _______and more social
equality
 Still faced racial ____________________________
 Segregated neighborhoods
 Workplace (job) discrimination
How did the African-American community respond?
 She led an ___________________
crusade
Ida B. Wells
Booker T.
Washington
W.E.B.
duBois

Called for the federal government to
take action

Pres. Wilson did not support federal
laws against lynching
 Founded _____________ Institute
 ________________path to equality is
through _______________ education
and economic success
 Criticized for accepting segregation
 Demanded __________________
political equality and __________
__________for African-Americans
 Formed the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
(_____________) in 1909
 Ph.D. from Harvard
 Founded the _______________
Movement to promote _____________
education for African-Americans
Booker T. Washington
Most Likely to Have a T-Shirt/Slogan that Says:
W.E.B. DuBois
Most Likely to Have a T-Shirt/Slogan that Says: